• 文献标题:   Manipulation of structural, electronic and transport properties of hydrogen-passivated graphene atomic sheet through vacancy defects: first-principles numerical simulations based on density-functional-theory along with tight-binding approximation
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   SATTAR A, IRFAN M, IQBAL A, SHAHID FA, AMJAD RJ, USMAN A, MAHMOOD H, LATIF H, IMRAN M, EHSAN SA, AKHTAR MN, AKBAR N
  • 作者关键词:   firstprinciples simulation, densityfunctionaltheory, tightbinding, vacancy defect, percolation threshold, transmission coefficient, nonequilibrium green function
  • 出版物名称:   MATERIALS RESEARCH EXPRESS
  • ISSN:   2053-1591
  • 通讯作者地址:   COMSATS Univ Islamabad
  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1088/2053-1591/ab2426
  • 出版年:   2019

▎ 摘  要

Using the first-principles procedure of density-functional-theory within tight-binding approximation and nonequilibrium Green's function formalism, this paper reports on the impact of vacancy defects on the structural, electronic and transport properties of hydrogen-passivated graphene atomic sheet. After the introduction of vacancy defects in graphene atomic sheet passivated with hydrogen atoms, apart from increase in band gap, a suppression is noted in the intensity of transmission channels and density of states arising from the long array deformations of the graphene sheet and a corresponding shift of the Fermi level. This in turn decreases the conductance of the defected graphene atomic sheet. In case of slow-ion bombardment method, the conductance of the sheet decreases slowly and its value of the order 10(-6) S before vanishing the percolation drops to the order 10(-10) as the percolation of the sheet is destroyed. But in case of fast bombardment the conductance of the sheet shows a linear drop before vanishing of the percolation of the sheet, and its value of the order 10(-6) S before vanishing the percolation drops to the order 10(-10) as the percolation of the sheet is destroyed. Furthermore, it is found that the atomic vacancy defects effectively terminate the original smooth sp(2) -hybrid network of 2D graphene atomic sheet that leads to modify its electronic and transport properties, especially a decrease in its electrical conductance. Interestingly, transmission spectrum of graphene atomic wire with large vacancy defects of 143 attains identical shape to that of a molecular benzene ring.